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Originally Posted by theFM

i just want to know why will i pay 100$ or 140$ to test a beta script , it is not ready yet , and with very few features in it .

this has happened with vb4 as well , pre-sale order , i hate this , i will not buy it , until i see a Stable version released and the price less upto a 100$ (without any promotional plan)

Sorry, but no. vBulletin 4 was being sold before the vast majority of customers even knew what the product was going to look like, include, etc. When it finally was released, many complained it was nowhere near being a stable release as IB claimed.

Now, compare that to XenForo where there are actually a few public instances running that people at least have an idea what the forum looks like and includes (minus the backend and underlying code). Yes, the product is still in beta but they're upfront about that very fact. I'm sure there will be people who don't purchase a license until there is a stable release (and those who won't purchase a license at all), and there's nothing wrong with that, but sorry, the current situation doesn't even closely resemble what we had with vBulletin 4's initial release.

It's amusing to read a lot of the posts in this thread, especially since some individuals are presenting the same behavior as they claim is prevalent in the XenForo community. That said, I'll continue to use both vBulletin and XenForo as dictated by the needs of current and future projects.